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    A hazard is a situation that poses a threat to life, health, property, or the environment. Natural hazards are threats from natural events like earthquakes, floods, or droughts. Human-made hazards result from human actions like technological or industrial accidents. A disaster occurs when a hazard impacts people, causing deaths, damage, or environmental destruction. Common features of disasters include substantial damage and changes to lives and the environment. Vulnerability and risk interact with hazards - vulnerability is the susceptibility to harm, while risk considers both the hazard and vulnerability.

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    A hazard is a situation that poses a threat to life, health, property, or the environment. Natural hazards are threats from natural events like earthquakes, floods, or droughts. Human-made hazards result from human actions like technological or industrial accidents. A disaster occurs when a hazard impacts people, causing deaths, damage, or environmental destruction. Common features of disasters include substantial damage and changes to lives and the environment. Vulnerability and risk interact with hazards - vulnerability is the susceptibility to harm, while risk considers both the hazard and vulnerability.

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    A hazard is a situation that poses a threat to life, health, property, or the environment. Natural hazards are threats from natural events like earthquakes, floods, or droughts. Human-made hazards result from human actions like technological or industrial accidents. A disaster occurs when a hazard impacts people, causing deaths, damage, or environmental destruction. Common features of disasters include substantial damage and changes to lives and the environment. Vulnerability and risk interact with hazards - vulnerability is the susceptibility to harm, while risk considers both the hazard and vulnerability.

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    1 what is a hazard?

    A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment. Most hazards are dormant or potential, with only a theoretical risk of harm; however, once a hazard becomes "active", it can create an emergency situation. A hazard does not exist when it is not happening. A hazardous situation that has come to pass is called an incident. Hazard and vulnerability interact together to create risk. For hazards in the context of risk assessment, see Hazard (risk).

    natural hazard.

    A natural hazard[1] is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. Many natural hazards are interrelated, e.g. earthquakes can cause tsunamis and drought can lead directly to famine or population displacement. It is possible that some natural hazards are intertermporally correlated, as well.[2] A concrete example of the division between a natural hazard and a natural disaster is that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a disaster, whereas earthquakes are a hazard.

    human made hazard.


    Anthropogenic hazards or man-made hazards can come to fruition in the form of a man-made disaster. In this case, "anthropogenic" means threats having an element of human intent, negligence, or error; or involving a failure of a man-made system.It results in huge loss of life and property. It further affects

    a person's mental, physical and social well-being. This is opposed to natural disasters resulting from natural hazards.

    2. what is disaster?
    A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life, property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people.

    common features of disaster

    3. what is vulnerablity and risk?

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